... The connecting channels linking the Laurentian Great Lakes provide important migration routes, spawning grounds, and nursery habitat for fish, but their role as conduits between lakes for zooplankton is less understood. To address this knowledge gap in the St. Clair–Detroit River System (SCDRS), a comprehensive survey of crustacean zooplankton was performed in both riverine and lacustrine habitats ...

... Coastal wetlands are in decline globally because of climatic and/or hydrological changes, and anthropogenic activities. Deltaic wetlands are complex environments formed by different water sources, particularly when ionically rich soda water and freshwater and converge and influence the presence and diversity of biological activity. Lake Van is a terminal lake, 1650 meters above the sea level, surr ...

... Cleanup of Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs) restores environmental benefits to waterfront communities and is an essential condition for revitalization. We define waterfront revitalization as policies or actions in terrestrial waterfront or adjacent aquatic areas that promote improvements in human socioeconomic well-being while protecting or improving the natural capital (the stocks of natural a ...

... Thickened lips have evolved several times within the cichlid flocks of the East African Great Lakes. This distinct and easily recognisable phenotype is a model trait to study convergent evolution. Lake Edward (Eastern Africa) contains a unique cichlid assemblage, which has remained largely understudied. Hitherto, only one cichlid species with lobed lips, Haplochromis labiatus, was known from this ...

... In comparison to Central Europe, the knowledge about water mites inhabiting the natural lakes of southern Europe is scarce. This is a first study focusing on the water mite species composition and zonation in a large Mediterranean lake, i.e. ancient Lake Skadar basin, and identifying the role of physical and chemical water parameters in their distribution. The Hydrachnidia community of Lake Skadar ...

... Ancient Lake Tanganyika in East Africa houses the world's ecologically and morphologically most diverse assemblage of cichlid fishes, and the third most species-rich after lakes Malawi and Victoria. Despite long-lasting scientific interest in the cichlid species flocks of the East African Great Lakes, for example in the context of adaptive radiation and explosive diversification, their taxonomy an ...